Jesse L. Reno

Jesse Lee Reno (20 April 1823-14 September 1862) was a Major-General in the US Army who commanded the Union Army IX Corps during the American Civil War. He was killed at the Battle of Antietam in 1862.

Biography
Jesse Lee Reno was born in Wheeling, Virginia in 1823, and he moved to Franklin, Pennsylvania in 1830. He was admitted to West Point in 1842 and graduated 8th in a class of 59 cadets in 1846, becoming close friends with Stonewall Jackson. Reno commanded an artillery battery under General Winfield Scott during the Mexican-American War, and he was seriously wounded while commanding a howitzer battery at the Battle of Chapultepec. He later fought in the Utah War against the Mormons and was given command of the arsenal at Mount Vernon, Alabama in 1859. On 4 January 1861, he was forced to surrender the arsenal when Alabama seceded from the union and joined the Confederacy, and he left Alabama with his small force. In the fall of 1861, he was made a Brigadier-General of volunteers, and he commanded the 2nd Brigade during Ambrose Burnside's 1862 North Carolina expedition. He later became a division commander of IX Corps within the Army of the Potomac, fighting against his old friend Stonewall Jackson at the Second Battle of Bull Run and the Battle of Chantilly. On 20 August 1862, he was promoted to Major-General, and he was loved by his soldiers for fighting side-by-side with them without a sword or any sign of rank. On 14 September 1862, he fought at the Battle of South Mountain, where he was shot by a Massachusetts soldier who mistook him for a Confederate cavalryman as he returned from scouting the rebel positions. He died not long after, and he was light-hearted about his death, telling Brigadier-General Samuel D. Sturgis, "Hallo, Sam, I'm dead!" and, "Yes, yes, I'm dead, goodbye!"